Today we will be teaching you about sounds and their effects on poetry (exciting!)
The following are interesting facts about sounds (YES!!)
- Poems are full of sounds and silences as well as words and sentences that are meaningful.
- Some poems use sound effects to create a mood or establish a tone.
- Certain letters and sounds can evoke feelings such as luxury and aggression
- When the auditory and literal definitions of certain words come together, the author can use these as tools to effectively communicate the meaning and intent of his work to the reader
- So to get the full effect of a many poems, you must read aloud - that way, you can pay attention to the vocal rhythms and articulate the sounds as the poem calls for them to be reproduced by the human voice.
- Poetry = vocal art, dependent on the human voice to become its full self.
- Some sounds are just used to create effects (like music in the background of movies), setting the mood.
- Onomatopoeia- a word that captures or approximates the sound of what it describes
- Punctuation, length of vowels, pace and pauses all help control the way we read so that we use our voice to imitate what is being described
Here's an example of how sounds can affect the transformative poetry experience:
Without a proper grasp of the sound in poetry, you just get Ben Kingsley phoning it in:
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